Dora Leu

Dora Leu is a Romanian film critic and filmmaker currently based in Dublin. She works as a programmer for the Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival (BIEFF) and as an associate curator for the feminist film initiative F-SIDES. She is currently undertaking a PhD in film at Trinity College Dublin, investigating video-nostalgia and the role that videotape plays in describing both contemporary identities and personal histories on screen. Her main interests are poor images, Japanese and Hong Kong cinema, and she spends her days quoting Nagisa Oshima.

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Because We Are Visual

Olivia Rochette, Gerard-Jan Claes, Belgium, 2010, 47’

By means of visual material gathered from online sources, filmmakers Olivia Rochette and Gerard-Jan Claes create a unique poetic realm in which thoughts, fears, desires, and worries are shared via webcam, and merge together.

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Mars, Oman

Vanessa del Campo, Belgium, 2019, 20’

Oman’s vast plains look so much like Mars that they are used as a training ground for astronauts. Two local girls gaze at the starry sky like curious scientists while the astronauts philosophise about living on the Red Planet.

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Red Giant

Anne Verbeure, Belgium, 2021, 11’

Day and night, a giant sits on a hill, far away from his smaller fellow man. He fills his days organising things and making sure everything is in the right place at the right time.